Comment on ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I agree. Unfortunately the people who benefit from the current power structure have the most power in order to maintain it. I don’t see these people accepting juries or caps on their assets.
There are also often violent repercussions to protesting, and coups tend to just destabilise a region and set up the next dictatorship.
Humans just can’t seem to stop being dicks
AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.world 4 days ago
It's interesting, because the work itself seems to have the exact opposite thesis: Humans on average aren't dicks, but inequality and the interests of a few elites with essentially personality disorders the way he frames it, amplify our worst tendencies. For many thousands of years of pre-history, archaeological evidence and anthropological observations clearly show humanity in much more egalitarian societies. The example he uses is of the Khoisan people:
In general, it's not a very controversial take, that the current (i.e. of the past ~5k years) inequality did not arise as a natural state but became only possible through surplus.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Agreed. It’s the people with dickish traits that seem to be able to crawl to the top and subjugate the rest of us, is what I meant